Civil Liberties

Going Undercover at the GOP's Voter Vigilante Project to Disrupt the Nov. Election

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

The Republican True the Vote project is a well-funded scheme with training sessions for activists across the country. Will it work?

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What a Romney "1950s" Presidency Would Mean for Latinos

By Chris Zepeda-Millán / Huffington Post

Immigration Hardliner's Lawsuit Against Deferred Action is Unlikely to Stand Up in Court

By Ben Winograd / Immigration Impact

Are Police in Schools Making Students Safer, or Putting Them at Greater Risk for Abuse?

By s.e. smith / AlterNet

Don't Let'em Persecute Wikileaks, It'll Make Journalists Criminals Around the Globe

By Michael Moore, Oliver Stone / OpEdNews.com

"Isolation Rooms" in Elementary Schools: Are They Treatment or Punishment?

5 Ways Speeding and Red Lights Cameras Are Causing Political Outrage

How I Changed My Mind About the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case

Civil Liberties

Solitary Confinement Is Used as Torture Chambers for Black Dissidents

Kanya D’Almeida, Bret Grote / Al Jazeera

“The Chief of Police Stepped On Me and Then He Charged Me With Rioting”: Activists Face Jail Time for Defending Homes

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Judge Strikes Down Most of Alabama's Extreme Anti-Immigrant Law

Ben Winograd / Immigration Impact

How My Church Tried to Make Me Hate Gay People

Kate “Sierra” Townsend / Patheos

How Privacy in America Went Virtually Extinct in Just a Decade

David Rosen / AlterNet

Who's Afraid of Being Post-Black in Black America?

Kirsten West Savali / AlterNet

Inside ALEC's Powerful, Right-Wing Indoctrination Machine

Alexander Zaitchik / Media Matters

Shock and Humiliation: How People Are Being Strip-Searched for Trivial Offenses

Herman Schwartz / The Nation

Right-Wing Media Completely Distorts Educational Initiative for Undocumented Students

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

DREAM Come True -- Obama's Immigration Reform Takes Effect

Ian Reifowitz / Huffington Post

Sore Loser, Jan Brewer, Continues Anti-Immigrant Crusade

Policy Center / Immigration Impact

Why Are No Women Celebrity Stoners Willing to Come Out of the Greenhouse?

Greta Gaines / AlterNet

8 Attacks at Houses of Worship in 11 Days -- What's Going On?

Uzma Kolsy / Salon.com

Shocker: PA Judge Upholds Voter Disenfranchisement Law, Setting Up Chaos Like 2004 in Ohio

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

4 News Stories That Probably Make the Rest of the World Think Americans Are Gun-Crazed Bigots

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

Today's FBI: Spying, Entrapment and Detention

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Beefed Up Border Patrol Devastates Northern Community

Kathy Mulady / New America Media

Why We Should Care About the Homeless Vote

Jin Zhao / AlterNet

GOP Voter Fraud Hucksters Latest Lie: Felons Made Franken U.S. Senator

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Administration Releases Details on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Ben Winograd / Immigration Impact

Echoes of Rosa Parks? Some Local Officials Say No To New Anti-Voter Laws

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Why Are Children Going to Prison for Life?

Suevon Lee / ProPublica

Sikh Temple: In the Wake of Yet Another Massacre, What Will it Take to Stop the Gun Madness?

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Meet Bibi Netanyahu's Refusenik Nephew Who Says That Israel Is an Apartheid State

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Why Machismo Can Be Deadly For Gay Latinos

Erika L. Sanchez / AlterNet

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